Hello all, With regard to EP in the introductory poetry classroom: Students (maybe just mine?) have trouble with the Modernists generally, and Pound is definitely no exception. After trying to make Eliot and Yeats comprehensible to undergraduates, I get to EP. Having made some aborted attempts to explain the first few Cantos, I have settled on some of the traditional 'this is an imagist poem' examples, and the Li Po translations. The latter, for some reason I cannot identify, seem the most popular and accessible. I think the problem with the other material is simply one of time--to teach Pound's *poetry*, one needs to teach a lot of *Pound*, and that means teaching a bit of eveything. There simply is not time in an introductory class. Despite the problems, I think most of my students end the semester with some idea of EP's importance to poetic history in general, and several do choose to write (often rather poor, if well-received and enthusiastically written) papers on EP. Have others had similar experiences? Any advice on teaching EP to those who are novices with Pound and poetry in general? On another note: Does anyone know of any extended considerations of the Pound-Mencken connection? It strikes me as odd that this has not been thoroughly examined, given the length of their correspondence and the fairly positive comments from Pound on Mencken. But I have not seen any sources that deal with the relationship in detail. What am I missing? Just casting about blindly for dissertation topics ... Happy holidays, Chris Coffman